The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

Kaspars Daugavins will join the Bruins at some point, but when that will be is unclear.

The former Senator, picked up on waivers Wednesday afternoon, has to be approved for a work visa in the United States. Daugavins, a Latvia native, had a visa when he played for Ottawa’s AHL affiliate, the Binghamton Senators.

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Daugavins’ agent, Jay Grossman, is hopeful processing the new visa can be settled soon, but added there’s no guarantee that will happen.

“Usually you can get cooperation with these things,” Grossman said over the phone. “He had a visa when he was in the AHL, so they’re familiar with him. To put an exact timetable on it isn’t really possible.”

Daugavins and Grossman spoke with Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli shortly after he was claimed. Chiarelli was in his final weeks in the Senators front office when Ottawa selected Daugavins in the third round of the 2006 draft.

“Both (Daugavins) and I had what we thought were very positive talks with Peter Chiarelli,” Grossman said. “Peter was part of the team in Ottawa that drafted him. … We were quite pleased he went to a team that knows him.”

Daugavins developed a niche as a penalty killer in Ottawa. He was second among Senator forward in shorthanded time on ice per game at 2:07.

Grossman said Chiarelli views Daugavins as more than just a defensive forward, however.

“Not to plug in a role player, and not that he won’t have a role in Boston, but it’ll be as (a two-way player),” said Grossman, who didn’t want to go into too much detail of the conversation. “He was a goal-scorer in the AHL and with the Canadian junior teams.”

Daugavins has a goal and two assists in 23 games this season, mostly playing on the third line for the injury-depleted Senators.

Daugavins had his only goal last Thursday against the Bruins, scoring on a slapper from the left half-wall. He was a healthy scratch for the next two games, then placed on waivers Tuesday.

Grossman was thankful to the Senators and general manager Bryan Murray for allowing Daugavins the opportunity to get playing time.

“They were very upfront about it,” he said. “They gave me a call to talk about Kaspars. The feedback we got was pretty good. The club was very fair to him, to give him the chance to play. They could’ve just kept him around.”